Of course, Xu Shu and Zhuge Liang were not confused, it was really because of a big incident in Jiangxia.

Liu Qi, the new assassin of Jingzhou, died of illness.

Liu Qi is a banner in Liu Bei's hand, and it is also Liu Bei's political bargaining chip to control the four counties of Jingnan.

Liu Qi is Liu Biao's eldest son, and the son inherits his father's business, which is in the past.

Liu Bei, as Liu Qi's elder, assisted the young Liu Qi in managing Jingzhou, which also said that although Liu Qi was in his thirties in the past, everyone said that he was young, and he was naturally young.

Unfortunately, when Cao's army went south, a small plague broke out because of the lack of adaptation to the water and soil, and this plague did not bring much loss to Cao Cao, but it spread to Jiangxia along with the displaced people and the later surrendered troops.

The plague also broke out in Jiangxia, and after Zhuge Liang's efforts to control it, it finally did not cause much harm.

But later, Zhuge Liang was transferred to the three counties of Jingnan to govern the place, Jiangxia's military affairs were handed over to Chen Zhi, Wenpin, and government affairs were handed over to Chen Zhen, Sun Gan, Yi and others.

After all, with the governance measures left by Zhuge Liang, Chen Zhen and others also calmed down the rising trend of the plague, but unfortunately, Liu Qi was recruited.

Of course, at the same time, Mrs. Gan was also recruited.

But who would have thought that Mrs. Gan, a weak woman, was only recuperating in bed, and Liu Qi, as a man in the prime of life, didn't survive and hung up directly.

Liu Qi died of illness, so Liu Qi's title of Jingzhou Thorn History is no longer useful, and the place of Jingzhou naturally becomes a "borderless land".

Although Liu Bei can say that he is a "brother inheriting the brother's business", there will not be many people who buy this account in these years, except for the civil and military officials under Liu Bei's account, probably the princes of the world will not admit it.

This is also the reason why Liu Bei had to garrison the mouth of the Youjiang River at this time - to create a fait accompli, so that everyone could nominate him as the new Jingzhou pastor in the later period.

The core of Jingzhou, Nanjun, Xiangyang, Nanyang three counties, Liu Bei did not grasp any of them, what kind of Jingzhou pastor is this? !

Xu Shu and Zhuge Liang also knew that from a military point of view, doing so would cause Zhou Yu's vigilance and backlash, and might even destroy the Sun-Liu alliance.

But from a political point of view, Liu Bei must increase his presence in Nanjun, not only to occupy the mouth of the Youjiang River and control the waterway of the Yangtze River, even if Zhou Yu wants to transfer Liu Bei's army to attack Jiangling, Liu Bei must go, otherwise only relying on Zhang Fei's 1,000 people, Zhou Yu will conquer Nanjun in the future, which can also be said to be the credit of Jiangdong, and Liu Bei has nothing to do with it.

So Liu Bei came, risking the loss of his troops, took Wei Yan and Xu Shu to cross the river to the mouth of the Youjiang River in person, and the next step was to send Wei Yan to lead 5,000 troops to Jiangling to help, and strive to capture Nanjun with Zhou Yu, so as to bargain in the future.

Zhang Xi finally understood the ins and outs of all this, and then could only complain in his heart - why did Liu Qi, a bastard, die so early.

Liu Qi was indeed short-lived, but Zhang Xi vaguely remembered that Liu Qi should have lasted until the end of this year, when Zhou Yu had already laid down Nanjun. Wait, if according to what Xu Shu said just now, Liu Bei's sudden occupation of the mouth of the Youjiang River after Zhou Yu conquered Nanjun on the historical line is not purely for military reasons.

But anyway, it's only been July, and Liu Qi has already hung up, which has brought Liu Bei a lot of passivity.

The reason for sending troops was understood, and the follow-up plan, Xu Shu also made it clear to Zhang Xi, and the rest was that Zhang Xi took Wei Yan's 5,000 reinforcements to Jiangling City to find Zhou Yu to restore his life.

However, before leaving, Zhang Xi still found Liu Bei privately and cared about Mrs. Gan's physical condition.

Seriously, none of these women in the Three Kingdoms who have left their names in history are not pitiful.

Diao Chan's matter, although it is a fiction of the romance line, it does not exist in history, but in this world, Diao Chan does exist, and his whereabouts are also very clear, Lu Bu committed suicide when he was defeated.

Not to mention Da Qiao and Xiao Qiao, Sun Ce has a short life, and Zhou Yu is uncertain for the time being, but whether it is the romance line or the historical line, Zhou Yu will not have a long life.

Mrs. Mi Zhang Xi has never seen it, and Zhang Xi has not dared to ask, but it is said that she was separated when Liu Bei was defeated and went south to Xinye, and in this troubled world, the possibility of a weak woman surviving is definitely not high.

And what about Mrs. Gan. If nothing else, it should not survive the end of this year.

It's really not easy for Mrs. Gan to take care of Liu Bei's inner courtyard as a concubine, manage it in an orderly manner, and give birth to a son and two daughters to Liu Bei.

But Mrs. Gan just passed away, and Liu Bei married Sun Shangxiang because of the need for marriage, so it's hard to say whether his father-in-law is a big pig's trotters, but Zhang Xi is really not worth it for Mrs. Gan.

Besides, Sun Shangxiang is not a peaceful person, this arrogant and domineering is used to it, Liu Bei doesn't dare to provoke her, not to mention living in two places all the year round, Sun Quan, the eldest brother, didn't say that for the sake of relatives, he won't sneak attack Jingzhou.

What's more, Sun Shangxiang almost abducted Adou. No matter how you look at it, I feel that Sun Shangxiang is not married to be the housewife, but seems to have come to be the internal response.

Therefore, under Zhang Xi's concern, he decided to do his best and obey the destiny of heaven. told Liu Bei a lot of precautions about the care of patients with infectious diseases.

Zhang Xi is not a doctor and doesn't know much, but he drinks more hot water. Phew, no, it's about paying attention to hygiene, ventilating frequently, paying attention to nutrition in diet, not drinking raw water, etc., I always know.

By the way, Zhang Xi also told Liu Bei that the former predecessor of Changsha was too shou Zhang Ji, who was an expert in treating plague diseases, although his whereabouts are unknown now, but if he asked the powerful families in Changsha City, there should always be some clues, and he hurriedly went to find him, saying that he could not save Mrs. Gan's life.

Liu Bei wrote them down one by one at that time, and immediately after Zhang Xi left, he sent someone to Jiangxia to take care of Mrs. Gan according to Zhang Xi's suggestion, and on the other hand, he immediately repaired the book to Zhuge Liang and asked him to help find Zhang Ji.

After finishing these, Liu Bei began to think about a question - Zhang Yuanchang, why did he care so much about his Liu Bei's family?!

Liu Bei naturally didn't think that Zhang Xi had any thoughts about Mrs. Gan, but he couldn't stand Mrs. Gan's two daughters, right?!

The eldest daughter of Liu Bei and Mrs. Gan is eighteen years old this year, and the second daughter is also sixteen years old.

Then Liu Bei remembered that last month, Zhuge Liang asked him to discuss government affairs, and by the way, he took himself to eat melons together, saying that Zhang Xi had a crush on Zhao Yun's daughter. Where is this taking a fancy to Zhao Yun's daughter, this is obviously a fancy to my daughter, okay!!

Liu Bei's mood is complicated.

In terms of talent, Zhang Xi is considered to be talented, erudite and talented, and what is even more rare is that he can be literate and martial, can give advice, and can also lead troops to fight.

On age. It's really suitable.

Zhang Xi is only twenty-four years old, his own daughter is eighteen years old, and his second daughter is sixteen years old.

But Liu Bei really didn't feel like the daughter who was raised with great difficulty, but now he is getting married.

Liu Bei's mood, Zhang Xi couldn't understand, he couldn't imagine killing Zhang Xi, Liu Bei could want to go to that place.

Now Zhang Xi, with Wei Yan, was having a headache and met Zhou Yu for a while, what should I say.

And this Wei Yan please, I really don't owe you money, and even speaking of which, you can bring 5,000 soldiers and horses as a captain, or you I recommended to Liu Qi at the beginning.

Can we laugh?!

But Wei Yan still didn't smile, or rather, Wei Yan didn't take Zhang Xi in his eyes at all.

What Wei Yan's thinking circuit is, Zhang Xi is too lazy to understand, as long as he doesn't stumble on business, it's fine.

Although there was no communication along the way, the matter of leading 5,000 soldiers to march on the road, not to mention Wei Yan, even Zhang Xi could handle it very well.

Therefore, after successfully returning to the camp of the Jiangdong Army, Zhang Xi asked Wei Yan to camp on the periphery first, so as not to cause unnecessary misunderstandings, and he went to see Zhou Yu alone to explain the ins and outs of the matter.

"My lord heard that the governor had insufficient troops, so he led the army to the mouth of the oil river. One is to guard the grain road for the governor, and the other is to order Wei Yan, the captain of Hengjiang, to lead 5,000 troops and come to help in the war. ”

Zhang Xi said to Zhou Yu with a smirk.

Zhou Yu's face was not good-looking, it was like eating a fly, disgusting, but he couldn't spit it out.

Although he knew that Liu Beitun's soldiers would not leave the Youjiangkou easily, Zhou Yu asked Zhang Xi to be held accountable, just to be honest, and to talk about this after the Nanjun was conquered in the future, and casually throw other Nanjun counties in exchange for the important position of Youjiangkou.

But Zhou Yu didn't expect that Liu Bei, who had always been picky, really sent 5,000 troops to help him fight Jiangling under the banner of reinforcements.

This made Zhou Yu a little difficult to handle.

He is indeed short of men to attack the city now.

Cao Ren could not hold on to Jiangling City, and there were probably more than 10,000 troops.

On Zhou Yu's side, the repeated sieges and decisive battles have also been reduced from 40,000 to 27,000, and the proportion of offensive and defensive numbers is about the same as when the war first started, which is really not an advantage.

If there are 5,000 available soldiers, if they can fight four enemies like Zhang Feijun, even if it is only the level of ordinary Jiangdong soldiers, it will be of great help to Zhou Yu.

But Zhou Yu also knew that these 5,000 people were not easy to collect, and once they were collected, it would be tantamount to acquiescing that Liu Bei had paid a great price in the siege of Jiangling, and when the territory was divided after the war in the future, Liu Bei would be easy to bargain.

Zhou Yu finally figured it out and left the five thousand people behind.

Anyway, Liu Bei occupies the mouth of the Youjiang River, and it is impossible for him to quit easily, and he can't turn his face with Liu Bei in the short term, so it is better to eat the benefits first, try to preserve his vitality, and wait for Nanjun to be defeated, and then according to the actual situation, calculate this account with Liu Bei.

Therefore, Zhou Yu decided that the next time he attacked the city, he would let Zhang Xi take these 5,000 people to attack, just so that the Jiangdong army could rest a little, and the province's own army would suffer too many casualties in the siege.

The military order was conveyed to Zhang Fei's camp, but neither Zhang Xi nor Zhang Fei felt any surprises.

Liu Bei sent reinforcements, originally to brush up the sense of existence, it is impossible to be passive and slack off without fighting, which is not in Liu Bei's interests.

Therefore, Zhang Fei and Wei Yan sat together and discussed the plan for the next siege.

Zhang Xi has a lot of opinions about this.

Ling Weiyan didn't lie to me, so I won't say anything.

Why did you see Zhang Fei, but you were talking and laughing, and you still had an expression of admiration?!

What does it mean?!

Watch people put food on their plates?!! 1

(End of chapter)